Summary:
Zip code 66546 has one listed school, Pauline South Intermediate, serving grades 3–5 with 277 students in the Auburn-Washburn district. With no other listed schools, there is no school-to-school leader or comparison to make. In 2025–2026, proficiency was below both Kansas and the district in ELA, math and science. The central finding is that the school’s results were behind both comparison benchmarks in every reported subject.
Science was Pauline South’s relative bright spot, while ELA had the largest gap with Kansas. The school’s rates were 31% in science, 28% in ELA and 24% in math; the corresponding Kansas rates were 38%, 46% and 41%. The school trailed Kansas by 7 percentage points in science, 18 in ELA and 17 in math, and trailed the district by 9, 22 and 24 points, respectively. Grade-level results show particularly large gaps in grade 3 ELA, 27 points below Kansas, and grade 5 math, 24 points below. SchoolDigger ranks the school 581st of 657 Kansas elementary schools, in the 12th percentile, and gives it 1 star.
Results weakened overall between the two test years, with math showing the sharpest decline. The school’s math proficiency fell 8 percentage points, from 31% to 24%, while its ELA fell 2 points and science fell 3; the equal-weight average gap with Kansas widened from 10 to 14 points. Science remains a relative strength, and its gap with Kansas narrowed by about 1 point even as the school’s science result declined. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 530th in 2023–2024 to 510th the following year, then fell to 581st; its percentile moved from 19th to 22nd to 12th. Contextual figures include a 10.2 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025, a 69% free/reduced-lunch rate that year, and chronic absenteeism of 18%, close to the state and district rates. These figures describe the school’s context, not the reasons for its results.
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